Fertility Center as a Valided Clinical Experience?

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Hi, everyone!

I just received a call from a fertilty center for an interview as a receptionist. As a receptionist, I will be answering phones(make appointments for patients, check for insurance, answering questions the patients might have, and explaining couples of medical procedures), greet the patients, etc.

My concern arises as I am not sure if that is accounted for clinical experience for medical school admission.
What do you guys think?

Best,
J

 

[LizzyM]

The are patients and you are face-to-face with them. I'd count it. It is as good as working at the information desk giving directions to the MRI center, or making coffee in the surgical waiting room and we count those as "clinical" too.

 

[Catalystik]

Hi, everyone!

I just received a call from a fertilty center for an interview as a receptionist. As a receptionist, I will be answering phones(make appointments for patients, check for insurance, answering questions the patients might have, and explaining couples of medical procedures), greet the patients, etc.

My concern arises as I am not sure if that is accounted for clinical experience for medical school admission.
What do you guys think?

Best,
J

It is clinical experience to my mind also.

 

[mehc012]

The are patients and you are face-to-face with them. I'd count it. It is as good as working at the information desk giving directions to the MRI center, or making coffee in the surgical waiting room and we count those as "clinical" too.

But you've specifically said in the past that you personally didn't think surgical waiting room positions ought to count! Or did you mean 'they ought not to, but we tend to count them anyway'?

Edit: Nvm, I did a search for posts by you that included "waiting room clinical". While I found the initial post that I was thinking of, I also found several others with various explanations and descriptions, and now have a much better understanding of your view on these situations. Leaving my dumb question up as a demonstration of the utility of the 'Search' function.